Saturday, September 06, 2008

An Ugly Win

As Coach Paul Johnson said last week, “I learned a long time ago an ugly win is better than a pretty loss.” He said much the same thing today on the post game radio show.

It was a defensive game on both sides of the ball, with lots of mistakes to go around, but to my surprise Tech came out on top. We fumbled the opening kickoff return and recovered. First play on offense also featured a mistake. There were way too many fumbles today. It was getting ridiculous. But a good Tech defense kept BC settling for field goals, and we finally got enough offense going against a very tough BC defense to get the job done. Plus, we got a safety! That doesn't happen very often and is a lot of fun to watch. Good effort by both teams. We were on pins and needles the entire game. It could have gone either way, and was quite a battle.

Our gathering of friends was fun and the food was tasty (chili dogs and brats). We'll probably head over to the pub later to watch the 8:00 games and have some supper.

8 comments:

Well, at least one of my "blogger buds" is happy over the outcome of this game. It's highly doubtful that "Suldog" will have much nice to say later today based on this score, for sure. And he, poor fellow, was going to watch it "live and in person." At least, viewing a sport on tv you can go to the kitchen, bathroom or even turn the darned thing off if the game takes a bad turn for one's team. Not so, when you are in the stands -unless you flat get up and leave and then, I for one, wouldn't be able to do that cause I'd be thinking then of how much moola I'd shelled out for the privilege of being there in those stands. (Ah the curse of having Scottish ethnicity strikes again!)

Congrats on the win...considering Michigan lost their game as did the Lions, you're doing better than anybody I'd consider "my" team - if I gave a crap about football (professional or College). I care so little that I actually care more that George Tech won for your sake.